Robert Sloper

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Sir Robert Sloper
Born 8 May 1729
Died 18 August 1802
Allegiance  Kingdom of Great Britain
Service/branch British Army
Rank General
Commands held Indian Army
Battles/wars Second Anglo-Mysore War
Third Anglo-Mysore War
Awards Knight Companion of the Order of the Bath

General Sir Robert Sloper KB (8 May 1729 – 18 August 1802) was Commander-in-Chief, India.

Military career

Educated privately at Bishops Cannings in Wiltshire, Sloper was commissioned into the 10th Dragoons being promoted to Major in 1755.[1] He was appointed Commanding Officer of 1st King's Dragoon Guards in 1759 and subsequently saw service in Flanders and Germany.[1] In 1778 he was deployed to Ireland and from 1779 he was sent to India seeing service in the Second Anglo-Mysore War as well as the Third Anglo-Mysore War.[1] In 1785 he became Acting Commander-in-Chief in Madras and from July 1785 he was appointed Commander-in-Chief, India.[1] He was promoted to full General in 1796.[1]

He lived at West Woodhay House at West Woodhay in Berkshire and is buried at St. Martin's Church in East Woodhay in Hampshire.[2]

Family

He was married to Jane Willis with whom he had six sons and four daughters.[3]

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Military offices
Preceded by Commander-in-Chief, India
1785–1786
Succeeded by
Charles Cornwallis
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Biographies of People who worked in British India by Tom and Wendy Dailly
  2. Humphreys Family Tree
  3. Notes & Queries Oxford Journals, 1947